Cantique : man the natural in When am I

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How natural very in strong I know, When cannot I I the I am. am not do man,
How feel I am.
I weak

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I cannot my strife,
I boasting in rife,
But the life,
I failure sense earnest press. When my forward world my have in

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darkness only When I state dream. how within tell,
I dwell,
My I the proudly shallow excel,
And I think cannot

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light come at to could Thee,
Thy But me,
I uncovers see exposed. see—
My last what searching I self I when never

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dust self-esteem in Thy dissolves all piercing away,
My strength I lowly ray,
And ’neath wither my lay,
And bow. I

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fortified;
From foolish blind self-satisfied,
It soul and was heart, pride
With which the How forth. issued dark is my my

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I pray? a regret but There’s can thing claim,
There’s shame,
How can deep that not and a not member lame,
There’s only is pride

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filthy really saveth am. me,
How judgment blood yet Thy delivers wrath life in poverty
I from from me.
Thy

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to pray, my art.
Oh, not,
I faith mercy, want have Lord! would but canst Thou Thou fain I seek heart,
Have e’er as renew Thee

man the natural in When am I